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Automating the Code Review process
You can split the Code Review process into 2 parts: the Low Level part (styling, code duplicate, naming conventions, etc) and the High Level part (architecture, design, business).
Starting from a Coding Standards document, you can easily automate the Low level part of the Code Review process. The automation tools for Code Review will eliminate most of the styling issues, naming conventions, cyclomatic complexity, duplicate code, code coverage, etc. They can’t though detect major design issues, architectural flaws or project specific functionality and this is where the reviewer skills are the most important. I’ll present below the most used tools for Continue reading